Paul Pape Wii Chocolate Avatars In Hand Review
Paul Pape Chocolate Avatars are little Nintendo Wii Mii shaped chocolates. They quickly sold out after being talked about all over the internet.
A limited 250 were released on January 28th and were promptly scooped up by those who had missed out the first time.
While they were available they sold for $15 and came packaged in a little Wii shaped box. Perfect for that Wii loving lover on Valentine’s day instead of the ‘o so common’ dying flowers.
A crew of kids from Creighton University were hired to help assemble all of the avatars for shipping. Paul posted on his blog that”Even though they got paid, without their help, it wouldn’t have happened.”
I received my chocolate miis the other day so lets take a closer look at what all the fuss was about.
I received an e-mail from Paul Pape Design’s letting me know that since it is chocolate, they are sending orders out in batches to help maintain the freshest product possible.
My avatars were in a batch sent out on the sixth of February, via USPS Priority Mail and was received 2-3 days after shipping.
Let’s look at what I received.
The box was in great condition without any damages from shipping and I assume that I was order 613. If that’s true then at least 800 chocolate avatar pairs were sold because my order was in before the additional 250 were released.
After opening the outer protective shipping shell we were greeted by my name and a message of Mm Mm. My wife and I wern’t quite shure what Mm Mm ment at first but we soon found out.
Opening the Wii like box we were greeted by two smiling, well packaged (no pun intended), male chocolates. I looked over my order confirmation and I noticed I had made the error in ordering two male mii’s. I’m not going to hear this end of this from some people and my wife found this to be hilarious.
Each individual Mii chocolate measures 4 inches tall, 2 inches wide (at the head) and 1-1/4 inch thick. The box it came in measures 4 inches by 7 inches by 1-1/2 inches thick.
As you can see the wii skin on the box is starting to lift away and the printing quality isn’t the best. However, this isn’t something that your going to be putting on a display case.
It’s meant to be a surprise, something not everyone is going to receive this year.
In the end, I believe I received more than my $15 and I hope to see other interesting things from Paul Pape Designs in the future.
Paul Pape Designs wanted to give a little something back, so they placed 20 boxes on e-bay for the Child’s Play Charity run by Penny Arcade. They ended up raising almost $500 and as a gesture, decided to match the donation and round the whole thing up to and even $1000.
Paul has been getting some nasty e-mails from people wondering when there chocolates will arrive.
He posted a response >> Here << going over what, if any, the hold up is.
Links: Paul Pape Designs Home Page & Paul Pape Designs Store
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Mmmmmm they were tasty =)
I ordered these chocolates and would never order from Paul Pape again. I ordered in late Jan. for Valentine’s Day and as of today, Feb. 19th still have not gotten my chocolates because Paul has sent the chocolates to the wrong address. Paul has been really nasty and even threatened (when on our 5th call about these chocolates) not to send the chocolates because I was angrily telling him how frustrated I was that they kept screwing up! Rudest, most unprofessional service I have ever experienced.
Thanks for the Valentine’s Day chocolate! I loved them. Well, I would have liked them better if there was a girl and a boy, but I guess I wouldn’t have been able to laugh as hard as I did.